Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Dear all,
we would like to announce a new committer in gvSIG CE: Fernando González. Fernando (Geomati.co) is a developer with a lot of experience in open source. Geomati.co has contributed with several open source projects as gvSIG Desktop, gvSIG CE, gvSIG mini, thredds, geoserver, geoexplorer, GGL2 and Geotools.
He sent patches to our team and developed new functionalities with us. This is a new example to be included in gvSIG CE, made together with Ruth:
- Automatic loading of legends:
Fernando, thank you very much for the great work you are making and welcome to the project.
Best regards!
Jose Canalejo

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Karsten Vennemann, principal of Terra GIS Ltd. and education contact for the “Cascadia Users of Geospatial Open Source” group, is ready to present a 4 hour workshop at the WAURISA 2012 conference: “Introduction to gvSIG CE and geo-processing with SEXTANTE”.

The workshop consists of the following three parts (with 15 minutes breaks in between sessions):1. Introduction to gvSIG CE Desktop GIS60 minutes, presentation styleObjective: Participants will get a short introduction to free and open source GIS tools, the desktop GIS gvSIG CE (Community Edition) and the SEXTANTE library. The overview will include topics such as general GIS functionality in gvSIG CE, supported data formats, editing of GIS data, layout and cartography, accessing spatial databases and available extensions for gvSIG (e.g. 3D, Raster and Remote Sensing, and Network Data Analysis) . A discussion of geo-processing and spatial analysis with native gvSIG and with SEXTANTE tools will close the general overview.2. “Hands-on” exercises and examples using gvSIG CE75 minutes, demonstration style, participants can follow the demos “hands-on” on their own (windows based) laptop with gvSIG CE installed.The exercises will cover the general use of gvSIG: editing of GIS data, accessing spatial databases, and layout & cartographyObjective: The examples will illustrate how to use gvSIG CE as a general desktop GIS 3. “Hands-on” exercises and examples for Spatial Analysis and Geo-processing with gvSIG CE and SEXTANTE75 minutes, demonstration style, participants can follow the demos “hands-on” on their own (windows based) laptop with gvSIG CE installed.The exercises will cover the use of spatial analysis and geo-processing tools in gvSIG CE for raster and vector data: native gvSIG tools, and tools available via the integrated SEXTANTE library (also includes SAGA GIS, GRASS and R (Statistical package) algorithms).Objective: The examples will illustrate how to use gvSIG CE and SEXTANTE for Spatial Analysis and Geo-processing in order to learn about the capabilities and functionality available.